Dusting-brush



A TTOHNEYS.

Patented Apr. 4,1899.

H. H. HAM. DUSTING BRUSH.

(Appllcalt nl dDe 3 1898 ans HENRY IIORATIO I'IAM, OF PORTSMOUTH, NEV IIAMPSIIIRE, ASSIGNOR OF TlVO-TIHRDS TO TRUE IV. PRIEST, OF SAME PLACE, AND SAMUEL II.

lIIlLSBURY, OF KITTERY, MAINE.

Duerme-BRUSH .SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,621, dated April 4, 1899.

Application tiled December 3, 1898. Serial No. 698,142. (No model.)

T0 al?, whom it may concern.-

Beitknown that I, HENRY HORATIO HAM, of Iortsmoutl1,in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, haveinvented a new 5 and Improved Dust-Brush, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a dust-brush so constructed that the handle without being detached from the brush may 1o be shifted from one end to the other of the brush and secured to the body of the brush, thereby insuring a uniform wear of the bris tles.

A further object of the invention is to pro- I 5 vide a means whereby a hand dust-brush may be quickly and readily adapted for use as a floor-brush and whereby also the convertible brush may be constructed as durably as the ordinary brush and almost as economically.

zo The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying z 5 drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding` parts in all' the figures.

Figure 1 isa perspective view of the improved brush, illustrating the handle so sego cured to the body of the brush as to extend but a short distance beyond one end. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the brush and handle, parts of both being in section, illustrating the 'handle so applied to the body of the brush as 3 5 to extend much farther beyond one end than illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is aside elevation of the improved brush, a portion of the body being broken away, illustrating the handle so applied to the body of the brush that 4o it may be used as a floor-brush. Fig. 4c is a transverse vertical section taken practically on the line 4: 4 of Fig. 5, the handle being omitted; and Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section through the body of the brush, a portion ofV 45 the. handle that is secured to the body being broken away, the view likewise illustrating the manner in which the handle may be changed from one end of the brush to the other.

A represents the body of the brush, which may be of any desired material and which 5o may be given any contour that fancy or the requirements of use may dictate, and I3 represents the bristles or cleaning-surface of the brush that is secured to the body. The body A of the brush is provided, preferably,'at its 55 upper central portion with a longitudinal tnbular extension lO, the said extension being carried from end to end of the body, and the extension is open at both of its ends. The tubular extension 10 of the body A is pro- 6o vided near one end with an aperture 11 in its upper surface and near the opposite end with a corresponding aperture 12 and at the center with a larger aperture 13, the larger central aperture 13 being in transverse alinement 65 with a recess 13a, made in the bottom wall of the inner surface of the tubular extension, as

is best shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5.

In connection with the brush a handle C is employed, and the said handle is double- I7o ended--that is to say, the handle is completely finished at both of its extremities. The handle O is provided near one end with an aper ture 14, that extends through from top to bottom, and a similar aperture 15 is made at the 75 opposite end of the handle, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Then the brush is to be a hand-brush, the handle O is introduced into the tubular extension 10 of the brush-body and is secured to the body by means of a pin 16 or its equiva- -80 lent. When the handle of the hand-brush is to be a short one, the handle is introduced into the tubular extension 10 the full lengthof the latter, and the attaching-pin 16 is passed through the bore in the tubular extension of 8 5 the brush the full length of the latter, and the attaching-pin 16 is passed through the aperture 11 in the tubular extension 10of the brusl body and through the registering aperture 15 in the'handle that is farthest from that 'por- 9o tion of the'handle adapted to be grasped by the hand. If, however, a long handle is required in a hand-brush, the inner end o1 the handle is brought quite close to the end of the extension of the body of the brush from which 9 5` the handle is to project, as shown in Fig. 2, and the attaching-pin 16 is then passed through the aperture 12 in the tubular extening the handle from the body, since by taking out the attaching-pin 16 the handle may be pushed through the tubular extension of the body of the brush so as to change it end for end.

Whenever it is desirable to vuse the brush as a floor-brush, the handle being in a horizontal position is entirely removed froln the` body and is introduced into the central aperture 13 in the tubular extension of the body and into the recess 18, registering with said central aperture, as is clearly illustrated in Fig. 3. The frictional engagement occurring between the Walls of the aperture 13 and recess 13n and the handle will be found sufficient to maintain the handle in the brush-body.

Vhen a brush and its handle are constructed as above set forth the handle may be made long or short as required, or it may be made to extend beyond either end of the body of the brush, so that the bristles or cleaningsurface of said brush may be evenly Worn, and, furthermore, such a brush may be vexpeditiously and conveniently converted from a hand-brush into a floor-brush.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A dust-brush comprising a body having a tubulated portion, a double-ended handle capable of entering and of moving through the tubulated portion of the body, said tubulated portion of the body being provided With an opening adapted to receive the handle When placed at an angle to the body of the brush, and a fastening device for securing the handle to the body of the brush when the handle is longitudinally contained Withinthe tubulated portion of the body, as described.

2. The combination, with the body of a dustbrush provided with a tubular portion open at both of its ends, the tubular portion of said brush having apertures at its upper surface, one near each end, and an intermediate opening, together with a depression in the bottom of the tubular portion, the depression being in transverse alinement with the said intermediate opening, of a handle adapted for movement through the tubular portion of the brush, being capable of snugly fitting at one of its ends into the intermediate body-opening of the brush and registering depression, said handle being provided also With openings arranged for registry With either of the end apertures in the tubular body portion, and

retaining devices adapted to enter registering A apertures in the handle and brush-body, as set forth. f

HENRY HORATIO HAM.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. TRIPP, JOSEPH B. HALEY. 

